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The plan identifies management 

goals, priority resource management 

issues or threats that these goals must 

address, and specific strategies to 

accomplish these goals. The resource 

management and protection program 

addresses issues such as developing a 

systematic process to assess ecological 

health of the reserve, implementing 

resource management strategies, 

developing land use policies on the 

reserve, implementing the reserve 

Cooperative Plan for Watershed 

Conservation, assisting with the revision 

of the trail master plan, enhancing the 

application of GIS to stewardship 

priorities, improving restoration 

monitoring capacity, and enhancing 

community involvement in coastal 

stewardship. 

The research and monitoring program 

supports research focused on estuarine 

ecology and assessments of functional 

biotic diversity, investigation of links 

between land-margin ecosystem 

elements, and evaluation of the effects 

of human disturbance within estuaries. 

Staff, graduate students, and visiting 

researchers conduct monitoring and 

research within the watersheds and 

boundaries of the reserve and use GIS to 

map critical habitats and hydrology and 

hydrodynamic processes. 

The education and training program 

at the reserve targets audiences of all 

ages and backgrounds for traditional, 

experiential, training and outreach 

opportunities. The education program is 

also upgrading and expanding the 

Reserve’s exhibitry to better interpret 

scientific data collected by the research 

program, enhancing methods to engage 

middle and high school audiences, 

evaluate program offerings, implement a 

school-to-work educational experience, 

update information for visitors, and 

enhance program participation. 

The coastal Training Program will 

focus on identifying the needs of coastal 

decision makers (CDM’s), conducting 

training workshops for CDM’s, testing 

and adapting an Inquiry-Based 

Information Services model to identify 

information gaps and develop 

demonstration projects, conducting 

evaluations to measure the effectiveness 

of training and outreach programs, and 

developing an internet-based training 

and information program for CDM’s. 

The public access and facilities 

priorities at the reserve includes 

assessing opportunities to enhance 

access to the southern end of the 

reserve, establishing a visitor center/ 

office in Charleston, revising the 

facilities master plan, establishing a 

facilities maintenance and replacement 

schedule, and reducing operations costs 

through innovative energy oriented 

technologies. Visitor use policies are 

designed to provide for compatible use 

and protection of valuable natural 

resources. 

The administration program ensures 

the staffing and budget is adequate to 

carry out the goals and objectives of the 

plan. Situated within its parent agency, 

Oregon Department of State Lands, the 

administrative staff develops stable 

funding and grant match opportunities 

and manages grants and cooperative 

agreements effectively and efficiently. 

Priorities include developing a 

volunteer program, a communication 

plan, a plan to enhance information and 

communication technology, evaluating 

the need to revise the reserve’s 

Administrative Rules, and developing 

facility use policies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nina Garfield at (301) 563–1171 or Kate 

Barba, Acting Chief, Estuarine Reserves 

Division at (301) 563–1182 of NOAA’s 

National Ocean Service, Estuarine 

Reserves Division, 1305 East-West 

Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910. 

Dated: August 29, 2005. 

David M. Kennedy, 

Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal 

Resource Management, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

[FR Doc. E6–14603 Filed 9–1–06; 8:45 am] 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; Information collection 

3038–0031, Procurement Contracts. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted below has been forwarded to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

ICR describes the nature of the 

information collection and its expected 

costs and burden; it includes the actual 

data collection instruments [if any]. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 5, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven A. Grossman at CFTC, (202) 418–

5192; fax: (202) 418–5529; e-mail: 

sgrossman@cftc.gov and refer to OMB 

Control No. 3038–0031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Procurement Contracts, OMB 

Control No. 3038–0031. This is a request 

for extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: This information collection 

consists of procurement activities 

relating to solicitations, amendment to 

solicitations, requests for quotations, 

construction contracts, awards of 

contracts, performance bonds, and 

payment information for individuals 

(vendors) or contractors engaged in 

providing supplies or services. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The OMB control 

numbers for the CFTC’s regulations 

were published on December 30, 1981. 

See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). The 

Federal Register notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

this collection of information was 

published on June 26, 2006 (71 FR 

36328). 

Burden statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

average 2 hours per response. This 

estimate includes the time needed to 

review instructions, develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining information 

and disclosing and providing 

information; adjust the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; train 

personnel to be able to respond to a 

collection of information; and transmit 

or otherwise disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 182. 

Estimated number of responses: 182. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 364 hours. 

Frequency of collection: annually. 

Send comments regarding the burden 

estimated or any other aspect of the 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

the addresses listed below. Please refer 

to OMB Control No. 3038–0031 in any 

correspondence. 

Steven A. Grossman, Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581 and 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Desk Office for 

CFTC, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Issued in Washington, DC on August 29, 

2006. 

Eileen A. Donovan, 

Acting Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 06–7408 Filed 9–1–06; 8:45am] 

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